The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is a public-private partnership with the long terms goals of
universal adoption of clean cookstoves and the creation of a thriving global market. The benefits from
the universal adoption of clean cookstoves includes the reduction of degraded forests and lands as well as
the reduction of black carbon emitted into the atmosphere.

The Paradigm Project is a social enterprise working to create sustainable social, economic and environmental
value within developing world communities. The Project intends to implement 5 million stoves in
developing countries worldwide by 2020. To date they have delivered 36,340 stoves, most of which is in
Kenya.

Mitigation and/or Adaptation

The Alliance is only one year old so the immediate benefits to the mitigation of climate change are not
recordable. Some of the partners of the Alliance have been working for a number of years already and
the immediate benefit is the reduction of black carbon and indoor air pollution. The number of
households that have already adopted clean cookstoves are already benefitting from breathing cleaner air.

The mitigation benefit of the Paradigm Project in Kenya is reducing emissions. They state that their
“Rocket Stoves” are 40-60% more efficient than an open fire. Emissions are therefore
reduced by 1 to 2 metric tons per Rocket Stove each year. In addition, the change to the Rocket Stove
will save 33.6 trees over 5 years.

Measurement

The Alliance has a target of 200,000,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalents will be avoided upon success of its
work.

Other metrics include

Target of 100,000,000 for the number of households to have adopted clean and efficient cooking solutions

0.05MT is the target amount of black carbon avoided by the 100 million households goal

It is expected that there will be a 40% reduction in fuel use, GHG and time collecting fuel for affected
homes

It is expected that there will be a 50% or more reduction in emissions (PM2.5, CO, BC) from stoves in
affected homes by the adoption of clean cooking solutions.

The Paradigm Project’s measurement of mitigation is also the reduction of greenhouse gases. They
project that in 2020 1,500,000 metric tons of emissions will be reduced in Kenya if 400,000 stoves are
distributed.

Social Benefits

The Alliance’s primary goal is to work collectively with its partners to stimulate a thriving global
market for clean cookstoves and fuels. This will help it achieve—and ideally surpass—its 100 by
’20 target. For the Alliance, a thriving global market is one that consist of a range of
organizations—from cottage industries to large-scale companies—that are both sustainably
supplying clean, efficient, affordable, and user-desired cooking solutions (stoves and fuels) at greater
scale, and that are constantly innovating to improve design and performance, while lowering cost. Success
will also mean demonstrating the health, climate, and economic benefits of the solutions through a robust
research, monitoring and evaluation agenda.

The targeted market work will include creating local stove testing and design centers, developing local
financing tools to facilitate the marketing and scale of stoves and fuels, capacity development, reducing or
eliminating local market barriers such as import tariffs, implementing major public awareness campaigns on
the benefits of using improved stoves, and rigorous monitoring and evaluation.

500 million people will be affected from the 2020 goal of reaching 100 million households, with an assumed
ratio of 5 people per home. These people include the poorest half of humanity which will benefit from
reduced ambient air pollution, reduced stress on local resources such as forests, reduced regional climate
change, and a thriving global market of advanced cooking solutions that will eventually bring solutions to
the entire global population

The use of efficient cookstoves can dramatically reduce fuel consumption and exposure to harmful cookstove
smoke. Other steps—installing a chimney, opening windows, keeping children away from cooking fires, and
drying wood before using it—can also help reduce direct exposure to smoke, but they do little to
mitigate the other air quality, forestry, livelihood, or climate impacts of traditional cookstoves. The
development of a thriving global clean cookstove industry that is constantly innovating to improve design and
performance, while lowering the cost of stoves, is therefore seen as the most sustainable way to tackle this
issue.

Measurement:
We work with the WHO to determine lives saved and with countries to see economic impacts

Paradigm Project:
People impacted: 144,095
Trees Saved: 66,647 (this is based on kgs of wood saved per stove converted to a derived average weight of an
EA tree)
tCO2e Avoided: 18,566
Productive Hours Saved: 2,413,556 (for those who collect wood)
Income Saved: $57,581 US (for those who purchase wood)

Potential for Scaling-up and replication of project

The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves through the work of its partners can be broadly adopted throughout
Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Each project can be tailored specifically to the country
involved, based on economic, political, technological, climate and cultural factors.

The Paradigm Project is currently focused in Kenya but are working on scaling up projects in other parts of
East Africa.

The project to date has been wildly successful. We doubled expected sales in our first 12 months and are
expecting to triple original projections for the next 12 months. We approached the market from a traditional
consumer products perspective offering consumers a choice of great products at multiple price points and
involving them in the decisions for which product to carry. We worked with local manufacturers to develop and
produce a stove in Nairobi and with Envirofit International to import a higher-end stove suitable to the
market. We have over 200 exclusive distribution partners locally ranging from very small partners who can
purchase only a handful of products at a time to those who can carry 500 to 1000. We work with World Vision,
Food for the Hungry, Compassion International and the World Food Programme to serve some of the poorest of
the poor and use carbon finance to reduce the retail price of stoves down to achievable levels.

Replication of any project is dependent upon national circumstances and funding. In addition, projects
applicable to one region may not work the same in another due to local fuel sources, the political
environment and the economic environment.